Quotes About Authority

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

Every woman wants to be wanted - just not by the entire Metropolitan police force.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.

It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the law is being enforced.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

What we shouldn't do is let people who want to come here make the decision themselves. America should be in control of its own borders.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is."

If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.